Bring back FanVision

Dear fans of Formula-1, I am seeking hereby your support in order to bring back the service of FanVision, which has been offered since numerous years, and, which has not been renewed for the 2013 season. I would ask you please to sign this petition in order to increase the credibility of our group. Each signature that will show on it, one after the other, will help us, I am sure, make a big difference. (See hereunder at ''asked and sent to Mr. Bernie Ecclestone'').

For those who do not know what FanVision is: it is a small equipment which can we can be leased whilst going to a Grand Prix F1 race. The latter permits you to see the ranking, the time of the pilots, as well as the cameras installed on the cars of each pilot. You can even choose to divide your screen in four parts to follow 4 different cameras at the same time. You can even replay any sequence issued from any of the cameras and review an incident or passing of a car after its happening. This marvellous equipment permits you to follow, on the video, your favourite pilot throughout the totality of his rounds as well as the time done. Here is a short video taken by one of the fans at the USGP in Austin, Texas in 2012, which clearly demonstrates the numerous extraordinary possibilities of this equipment. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWy-KEWktG8&ab_channel=chazflyz

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To the attention of Mr Bernie Ecclestone

Sir,

In 2013, you took the decision of not using Fan Vision’s services anymore. Even though you have provided the passionate fans of Formula 1 with a new application for smart phones, this application cannot, in no way, be compared to the quality service which FanVision used to offer us during a GrandPrix.

It is awfully sad that, today, in 2015, we would regress on the technological point of view. This idea goes against the primary ideology of Formula 1 which, on the contrary, seeks going forward and try to be more and more innovative. In cancelling this service you had already offered to your fans since numerous years, you have made an enormous step backwards. As you well know, Formula 1 is the highest calibre car racing in the whole world, and if it is so, it is because of your devotion. As you are yourself as passionate as I am, I am pretty sure that you will understand that it is unacceptable that a lower calibre car racing such as Nascar is able to offer this service to their fans and, that no equivalent service or even a better one is offered to the Formula 1 fans.

You should try to put yourself in the shoes of a middle-class passionate fan of Formula 1, who spends each year numerous thousands of dollars for this sport (which represents a large percentage of his annual revenue), for tickets, transportation, clothing and accessories of a team as well as various other by products. You should also take in consideration that this same person has paid nearly 500$ for a FanVision equipment the year before the cancellation of this service. This person feels flouted at the non-renewal of this service which is, in my own, as well as in all the signers of this present petition's point of view absolutely essential for a good and integral vision of a Grand Prix.

The goal of buying tickets for, and going to a see a Grand Prix on the racing site itself, is always in order to live a very exceptional experience. Presently, when we go to a Grand Prix without the possibility of leasing a FanVision equipment, the experience becomes mediocre, for it is not better that watching the race on television, a thing which is not normal at all and which is certainly not the result you are looking for...

Your application for smartphone offers the chronometer in real time but the delay (due to different connections: by the mobile providers &\or Wi-Fi) is enormous. Moreover, we don’t have any video function available. Thinking of adding a video function to actual application is not an option since doing so, would make the functioning even worse due to the mobile connection.

I am hereby requesting that you would help this wonderful sport to continue going forward on the technological point of view. If you do not wish reaching an agreement with FanVision company, it would be pleasant if you could offer to the Grand Prix fans a comparable or even superior service which FanVision offered them.

We wish you will react promptly to this request with consideration for your fans who contribute, as much as yourself, to the success of this sport.

With the expression of my most sincere thanks for having permitted such an evolution in the Formula 1 sport since decades, please agree, Sir, my best regards.